City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the
County of Midsex }

Informations taken this Tenth day
of August 1786 at the Parish of St.
James within the Liberty of Westmr.
in the County of Middlesex upon an
Inquisition touching the death
of William Stubbs< no role > lying dead in
the said Parish Liberty and County

John Taylor< no role > Foreman to Samuel Collin< no role >
of Tothill Fields Westmr . Nightman on his
Oath saith That between ten and Eleven
o' Clock last Night this Dept. went with other Men to
Empty the Privy of Mrs. Sarah Atkinson< no role > in
Market Street in the Parish of St. James
Westmr . Says that William Flood< no role > one of the
Men [..] went down, after the Soil
was got up to Examine the Wall, and
immediately the Deced looked down
and said the Man is gone, and jumped
down into the Vault took a Rope and
fastened it around the Man's Body
and Dept. assisted to pull him up, Says
that the Deced immediately cryed out
I am gone too, Says that a Rope was
fasten'd around another Man who
went down and fastend the Rope
around the Deced's Body and he was
drawn up, but was Suffocatedand Deced
Says that he moved his Arm once
as Dept. thought, but never spoke
and Dept. says that the Deced's was
Accidentally Suffocated.

John [mark] Taylor< no role >
his Mark

Sworn the Day Year
& Place abovementioned
before me}

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner